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• Festival-goers who got stiffed may receive refunds

  15-07-2018 20:28 via vtdigger.org
  The Shrinedom 2017 festival in Irasburg ended in controversy, which led to an agreement on ticket refunds. WCAX image
  Attendees of a botched music festival in Irasburg now have another way to recoup money they spent on tickets.
  The Attorney General’s Office announced Friday that it has required organizers of Shrinedom 2017 — a festival held last fall to benefit Montpelier’s Mount Sinai Shriners — to provide up to $10,000 in reimbursement for ticket holders.
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• Vermont Law School revokes tenure for 75 percent of faculty

  15-07-2018 19:26 via vtdigger.org
  Thomas McHenry, Vermont Law School’s new dean and president, in his office in Debevoise Hall at the school in South Royalton. File photo by Charles Hatcher/Valley News
  Fourteen out of 19 members of the Vermont Law School faculty lost tenure on July 1 as part of a restructuring effort at the South Royalton institution.Faculty who lose tenure will no longer enjoy certain protections that ensure employment.Professors interviewed by VTDigger are concerned that the 75 percent reduction in tenur
  
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• Forum weighs future of Vermont’s landmark Act 250

  15-07-2018 18:57 via vtdigger.org
  Large-scale ski area development, such as this one in Stowe, helped spur interest in Act 250. Creative Commons photo
  MANCHESTER — Whenever changes to Vermont’s Act 250 review process are considered, some familiar themes have predominated. That was the case during a recent legislative forum in Manchester.
  The predominant themes — likely no surprise to most — focused on the longstanding call for a less cumbersome and quicker review process for development projects coming be
  
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• Half of Vermont towns will see increased property tax rates

  15-07-2018 18:13 via vtdigger.org
  The map below shows Vermont towns by their change in education property tax rates from FY18 to FY19. Towns with blue labels have seen an increase in their tax rate.The numbers are in.
  Two weeks after lawmakers and the governor resolved a budget impasse centered on a dispute over property taxes, the Department of Taxes published the rates taxpayers will see reflected in their bills this year.
  More than half of the towns in Vermont, 135 out of 249, will see higher average homestead property tax ra
  
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• Lake Champlain Tasting Trail connects to the world

  15-07-2018 18:00 via vtdigger.org
  Sarah Diaz is an employee owner at Switchback Brewing Co., part of the Lake Champlain Tasting Trail. Courtesy photo
  Vermont will be part of the first international culinary trail that eventually will span more than 1,000 miles.
  Unveiled last week, the Lake Champlain Tasting Trail includes more than 50 restaurants, producers, farms, wineries, breweries, cideries and farmers markets. The pathway in the Champlain Valley will serve as a link with similar trails in New York, Ontario and Quebec as off
  
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• Welch bill seeks to cap out-of-pocket drug costs

  15-07-2018 17:49 via vtdigger.org
  Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
  Rep. Peter Welch has joined a slew of Democratic lawmakers to introduce a bill that would limit monthly out-of-pocket costs for medications.
  The bill, also sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would cap the amount that families could be charged for prescriptions each month.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care coverage with our weekly headlines in your inbox.Daily
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• Then Again: When the Green Mountains were not so green

  15-07-2018 17:12 via vtdigger.org
  This photo of a log drive on the White River near Sharon gives a sense of the scope of Vermont’s lumber industry early in the last century — a time when the state and some private landowners were starting to take action against excessive cutting. Photo courtesy of the Vermont Historical Society
  Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”The nickname &ldq
  
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• Health network eyes Berlin for new psychiatric hospital

  15-07-2018 17:00 via vtdigger.org
  Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin is part of the UVM network. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
  As University of Vermont Health Network administrators move forward with plans for a new inpatient psychiatric hospital, they can’t yet say how big that facility will be or how much it will cost.
  But they agree on one thing: The campus of Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin looks like an ideal location.Get all of VTDigger's health care news.You'll never miss our health care cover
  
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